dRep Awareness Creation

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

Create dRep and increase awareness for delegated voting among voters in Africa as well as increasing voter participation and reward.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

This is a team from a Cardano-based community network with a combined experience of over 20 years in the field of Computer Application, Marketing, Research, Finance and project management.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

dRep is great for voters to delegate the voters and help for quality decision-making during voting. However, the low level of awareness in Africa is preventing many from participating and delegating their votes. 

Individual voters are influenced by several factors and often time is unable to read proposals to make quality decisions regarding proposals. Others are also faced with language barriers that prevent them from participating meaningfully during voting. 

dRep is an avenue for voters to delegate their votes. Therefore, this proposal seeks to create awareness among the catalyst community and encourage them to delegate their votes. This would help to vote for quality and good proposals as well as provide a better pool for a reward that is better than that which an individual receives when voting. Also, information regarding dRep needs to be breakdown to the comprehension of individuals to enable increased participation and we are committed to executing such for the good of us all. 

The proposal seeks to host online and physical events to create awareness. 

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

The awareness creation would impact individuals to participate in voting through dRep. The potential of dRep is not known and therefore, creating awareness in Africa would help impact many voters to save time while making quality decisions through dRep. 

The focus of the awareness creation campaign in Africa also presents a unique niche for individuals to participate in voting by delegating their votes and contributing to a better outcome and win-win situations at all times after voting.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

The risk we foresee is poor internet connection in Africa for an online event. The team would mitigate this risk by recording the meeting and subsequently making the video available on YouTube so individuals with poor interest can have access to the recorded and bring themselves up to speed.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

The team committed to undertake the following activities within the next 3 months after funding. This would keep the execution of the project within 12 weeks.

1st - 2nd Week - Kick-off Meeting

3rd - 4th Week - Strategic Event Planning

5th - 6th Week - Host first in-person dRep Educational workshop

7th - 8th Week - Evaluation Report on Event

9th - 10th Week- Host online dRep Educational workshop

11th - 12th Week- Host online dRep Educational workshop

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Venue Cost - 1,500

Online Subscription - 1,000

Resource Persons - ($500 x 4 [personels] = 2000) x 3 events = 6000

Logistics - 1200

Quiz Reward - $800

Team Fees: $500

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Christopher Aikins: A Senior Accounting Assistant with the Volta River Authority with 10 years of working experience in the Finance unit, he is good at holding strong ethical standards and good at implementing change. He holds an MSc degree in Accounting and Finance from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), a Master’s degree in Computer Application from Amity University (India), a BSc in Business Administration (Accounting) KNUST, a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy from Cape Coast Technical University. He enjoys researching and surfing the internet to learn about new developments in the technology world. He believes in blockchain architecture and feels it solves many problems. He has been a community advisor and voter in the project catalyst funding cycle since fund 4.  

Role: Team Lead

LinkedIn Url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-pokoo-aikins-65181996

Nathaniel Dwamena: He has a B. A (Hons) in Geography and Rural Development. He is a researcher and has more than seven years of experience in think tank development, non-profit management, and business development consulting. He was part of the team contracted by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ Ghana) to conduct a study on red tape for doing business in Ghana. He successfully completed think tank training in Nigeria and project management training in Kenya, which aided in his successful graduation from the Atlas Leadership Academy, Atlas Network (USA). He is a member of Wada and has been involved in Catalyst since Fund 7 and funded proposer in Fund 8

Role: Research and Administration

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-dwamena-02578a127/

Angela Okai-Nartey: The Executive Director of the Ladies Network for Economic Freedom. She has 3 years of experience in Think Tank Development, Non-Profit Management, and Digital Marketing.

She holds a BSC in Information Technology from Ghana Communication Technology University. She also holds a Think Tank Foundations Certificate from Atlas Network Academy and a Digital Marketing Certificate from Google Digital Workshop. Angela is a blockchain enthusiast, She has been a Community Advisor since Fund 7. A challenge team member for Scale-UP Cardano Community Hubs in Fund 8.

Role: Marketing and Communication

LinkedIn Url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-okai-nartey-8b8aa81b2/

Richmond Oppong: Richmond is a graphic designer with over 10 years of experience in logo designs, print and poster designs, business card designs, 3D signage, and advertising and marketing. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Graphic Design from Takoradi Polytechnic, Takoradi-Ghana. Richmond is a blockchain enthusiast and is actively part of the Cardano project catalyst community. He was a Community Advisor in Catalyst funds 5, 6 and 7, also was a Veteran community Advisor in fund 7 and a Catalyst Challenge Team member for ‘Scale-UP Cardano’s Community Hubs’ challenge settings for fund 8

Role: Team Member

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richmond-oppong-054689b4

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

No, we may consider funding in the future and that would depend on the outcome when we execute this proposal.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

The following indicators (KPIs) would help the team track process and measure success;

• Number of people participating in dRep
• Number of People Reached and Educated on dRep
• Number of Delegate onboarded 
• Amount of ADA delegated
• Number of quality decisions made in Catalyst

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

The team understand that the progress we make would directly impact the project catalyst. That said, we define our success as the number of people understanding and participating in dRep and contributing to quality decision-making and increased awareness of dReps.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is an entirely new proposal.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

SDG 8: Decent work and Economic Growth.

SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

SDG 10: Reduce Inequalities